Greensboro N.C. 2017 N.C. Woodturning Symposium

Day 1 Thursday November 2, 2017 We departed about 8:30AM for Greensboro, N.C. so I could attend the 2017 N.C. Woodturning Symposium. The symposium is sponsored by most of the woodturning clubs in North Carolina. We arrived about 12:30PM and setup on the asphalt in the parking lot. They have several sites along the edge of the parking lot for RVs that have 50/30/20amp electrical hookups. Later in the day two other members of my club came in with a motorhome and setup beside us. We met 6 members of my club at Darlys Wood Fired Grill for dinner. I guess Lena felt kind of out of place as she was the only female in the group, but she knew about half of the men so she was okay and the food was great.

Day 2 Friday November 3, 2017 I went to the coliseum about 8AM to help my club set up our equipment in one of the rooms for the professionals turners could use it to demonstrate on. The symposium started at 1PM. After attending the demonstrations for the day 35 of my club members and some of their spouses met at Carrabas for dinner and fellowship.

Day 3 Saturday November 4, 2017 The symposium started at 8:30AM today and ended at 5PM. Then at 6PM the banquet began followed by an auction of items donated by the vendors present and several professional turners and some of the non-professionals. In years past the food and service at the banquet has been very good but that was not the case tonight. Our table was the one of the first to be served and the food was barely warm and the coffee was not hot, just barely warm. Some people had trouble getting drink refills, etc. The same company has catered the banquet in the prior years and it has always been good with good service but not tonight.

Day 4 Sunday November 5, 2017 Again we started at 8:30AM and ended today at 2:30PM. Then all the clubs had to pack up their equipment and clean the rooms. I helped my club clean the room and pack all the equipment in our equipment trailer so it was after 3PM before I got back to the motorhome. Lena and I are not going to leave until tomorrow because we would not get home until after nightfall and I don't drive the motorhome at night if I have a choice.

Day 5 Monday November 6, 2017 After breakfast we departed Greensboro about 9:15AM for home. We stopped at a Pilot Truck Stop on I-95 to use their dump station to dump our holding tanks. I had called prior to the trip to verify they had a dump station as many of these truck stops do. It was located between two building in somewhat of an alleyway and there were several maintenance trucks setting in the way so we were unable to dump our tanks. So we wasted time and drove a few miles out of our way to get to the here for nothing.

We stopped again near Wallace to fuel up and I asked Lena to check all the cabinets for items that may have shifted when we hit a large pot hole while at the Pilot Truck Stop. We both forgot to check the refrigerator so when we got home and parked, I opened the refrigerator and the egg container fell out and three eggs splattered on the floor. At least it was not full.